Comments on: 10 Things …

By: Martin Lasarsch

Martin Lasarsch — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:46:41 +0000

hmm .. screwed up the link, but seems to work 🙂

http://en.opensuse.org/10_Things_…

By: mlasars

mlasars — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:45:14 +0000

The article is now in the wiki: I changed the order a little bit, the software parts are now together ....

By: mlasars

mlasars — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:43:17 +0000

14. Don’t be afraid of new Hardware

🙂 scnr

But actually i will add a chapter how to test before buying, or how to find out if the hw is supported, thanks for the suggestion

By: mlasars

mlasars — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:42:08 +0000

see last entry.

I’m not really a WLAN or modem export, if you think you can write a short chapter, do it in the wiki.

By: mlasars

mlasars — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:40:54 +0000

it’s already in the “Enable external software repos” part. See last comment, it’s now in the wiki … feel free to rewrite it.

By: Trueman

Trueman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:17:12 +0000

A few months ago I installed 11.0 and it recognised all of my hardware and installed the correct drivers, including my Nvidia Ti4200 graphics card. I easily set up a compile environment and was very happy that this was the best distro I had tried.

But after a hard disk crash, reinstalling it to the same PC with a new drive proved to be a very frustrating affair. I found it very difficult to find any help on why the graphics driver did not install, why the ones on the repositories were not working, why the screen resolution changed to something unuseable when I changed user/session. Why group root permissions did not work.

So far from being impressed, on this occasion I am so relieved to go back to use Windows XP – a stable, mature operating system that works. Should I have to say this? I thought Linux had come of age – it seems I was wrong.

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:48:15 +0000

It’s good to see that you finally put something on the site for beginners. It would be nice if some of the first information that visitors find when they come to the website, or when their computer first starts up, is instructions for beginners on how to use it. openSUSE is the best Linux distro out there. But, it’s an unfortunate truth that for most people new to openSUSE, if they don’t know how to use it, what good is it (from their perspective)? If you don’t know how to find anything, or install anything, is it even there to find or install (from the new-user’s perspective)? When I sat down and really studied Linux, and became much more comfortable with using it, I really appreciated it much more.

By: kann

kann — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:20:21 +0000

I wanna add a content for beginners…

13. DO NOT USE the newest hardwares and tricky hardwares. It might be in a trouble at install.

By: John

John — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:14:51 +0000

I came over to SUSE with 9.3 and I have never needed 3, 4 or 5. So I would drop those and add WLAN support and also dialup modem support for users in countries which don’t have broadband.

The other seem reasonable.

By: Vavai

Vavai — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:11:55 +0000

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the article. I want to add the 13th, Multimedia support : http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia 😉